"I created these playful custom coasters for each of our incoming students to help welcome them to the MFA Interaction Design department during orientation week.

First, I sketched each student's name, and scanned the drawings in. Relying heavily on Adobe Illustrator, I initially began tracing all of the lines with the 'Pen' tool in Adobe Illustrator, and soon realized that we could preserve more of the original hand of the drawings (and save time!) by instead tweaking settings with the 'Image Trace' tool, which interprets raster images into vector. The vibrant colors are pulled from the MFA Interaction Design department's identity."

Thanks Christine! They turned out beautifully, those first years sure are lucky.